You must think very poorly of Louis if you suppose that no girl can fancy him." "I have not said so, Scatcherd." "To have the spending of ten thousand a year, and be a baronet's lady! Why, doctor, what is it you expect for this girl ?" "Not much, indeed; not much.

A quiet heart and a quiet home; not much more." "Thorne, if you will be ruled by me in this, she shall be the most topping woman in this county." "My friend, my friend, why thus grieve me?
Why should you thus harass yourself?
I tell you it is impossible.

They have never seen each other; they have nothing, and can have nothing in common; their tastes, and wishes, and pursuits are different.

Besides, Scatcherd, marriages never answer that are so made; believe me, it is impossible." The contractor threw himself back on his bed, and lay for some ten minutes perfectly quiet; so much so that the doctor began to think that he was sleeping.

So thinking, and wearied by the watching, Dr Thorne was beginning to creep quietly from the room, when his companion again roused himself, almost with vehemence.
"You won't do this thing for me, then ?" said he.
"Do it! It is not for you or me to do such things as that.